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"textContent": "Episode Description: This week starts with casino Easter eggs and a prom-posal, because apparently Good Friday is full of surprises. Then Arielle and Karissa get into the actual news: a teenager built a working microplastic filter in her garage, Mexico’s monarch butterflies had their best winter in nearly a decade, and a $375 million jury […]\n\nThe post Podcast Transcript April 3, 2026—Good Friday good news: speed friending, fire fungi, and the science of sleep first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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